skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on state and industry, accountants/CPAs are also auditors of the work performed by the bookkeeper.
Glad you checked it out! I generally avoid ChatGPT at this point. Do you have a good example of incorrect responses? The easy ones tend to be trained away in the next model update
>> Visa ... is little more than a small clearing house

> worth $600 billion

I think one would find this valuation is in the banks which constitute Visa membership/ownership and not the Visa corporation itself.
Why? Test it in prod and let the users do QA is so much cheaper/faster. That’s just the trend
Carlsen quits World Rapid and Blitz championship after dress code disagreement
Well, keep in mind Content ID [1] is in response to Viacom v YouTube [2] despite Viacom not winning (largely on the grounds that Viacom itself didn't know which works were copyright infringement so how could YouTube).

So, the system exists to placate large rightsholders. It's not going to be modified to cause them problems.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_ID#History

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom_International_Inc._v._Y...
3 for $25 is how
I'd recommend reading "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker, it was a game changer for me.
The answer is simple: No matter the reason, if you have a data breach you must pay each person 100$ min with higher amounts depending on the information lost. Additionally, if that information is used in a crime then you are liable for further damages. Car companies, and other data vacuums, will just stop collecting it if they are liable for what happens to it.

I will not buy a car that does this. I am starting to turn my phone off when I am not using it as well. Being tracked every second of my life is not acceptable.
Hard to say, and it's highly subjective. It just feels like Silicon Valley is no longer about building cool things and making the world better through technology. It's become about exploitation and extraction, instead of building. It's about capturing and controlling users rather than serving them. It's about "crushing it in the market, bro." It's grindset, hustle culture, performative work. It's about phony tech chops and faking everything until you make it financially or crash and burn. Maybe it's always been this way and I just didn't see it when I moved there.

In terms of respect for intellectual pursuits and expertise and institutions that respect these things, the place is still head and shoulders above most of the USA, but it feels like every part of the valley has been utterly corrupted by hustle and greed.

I came out here expecting Netscape, Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics, but lately the place has morphed into Theranos, FTX, and innumerable Fintech, AI and crypto scams. Not to mention GiantTech capturing and gatekeeping everything else that's not a scam.
Quick note that cash vs accrual basis accounting is orthogonal to whether the balances are correct or not. IANAA but afaik GAAP does not preclude cash basis accounting, provided the conditions where cash accounting is permitted pertain.
“We” is an amorphous blob, not a guild. The company will just shop the job around until they find someone to do it.
This is such a beautiful idea! I can totally relate to spending countless hours drawing as a kid, and it’s sad how many of those creations are lost to time.
Interesting, but this just a framework. Where are the actual implementations? Ie, the communities?

I've been looking for networked states that aren't all in on living forever or obsessed with crypto and anarchism.
Ghostty is great and all but is there an open source alternative to Termius? Termius is great but the subscription model and the pricing are extortionate.

Basic functionality I’m looking for:
1) setting up ssh profiles for specific ssh devices (I don’t want to remember specific ssh IPs, I just want to click on the device profile and run the ssh command.) optimally, this would be synced to the cloud/my other devices p2p so they all maintain the same list of ssh servers I need to access. Even better, each profile should have a settable theme.
2) supports MacOS, optimally cross-platform, looks native, fast
3) easy access to the local terminal and serial terminal, when needed
When I was 12 years old, we had to leave a rental house because the landlord sold it. It was very disruptive for us since my parents were low-income and didn’t have much savings. It also took place at a time when market rents increased quite a bit. My parents struggled to find housing; we moved into an apartment temporarily, and two months later we finally found another house to rent that we could afford, but it was in a more dangerous neighborhood.

I recently moved out of an apartment complex in Santa Cruz County in California that got sold after being owned by a family for about 50 years. Some of the tenants lived there for decades. The new owners submitted plans to the local government to upzone the 1960s-era apartment complex, which will involve residents needing to move during construction. Thankfully for me, the sale coincided with a major career change (WFH researcher to a professor who teaches in person) that required me to move anyway, so I moved. However, I feel for long-time residents of my former apartment complex going through the uncertainty of the future and the difficult housing market in Santa Cruz County should they be forced to move.

Renting, by definition, means you don’t own your place. While there are some people who are able to have stable renting situations, there are others who have the bad luck of receiving an eviction notice due to a sale. Owning a place means not having to worry about a landlord.
I guess I will have to kick the human breast milk, my mom will be happy.
Why does she believe this? What data is it based on?

(I also avoid these things but only because I feel paranoid about it.)
Being lazy here, but would love to know more about how testing for all of these plastics chemicals that are omnipresent is done in a way that ensures the measurement process or tools themselves do not contribute trace chemicals (e.g. lab tech wears latex gloves while handling the sample, whoops, etc).
RIP DivestOS, truly a top-tier project.

Not just the best alternative to GrapheneOS for non-pixel devices, but also a suite of other apps such as Mull, an Android Firefox fork.

This really was a passion project and SkewedZeppelin deserves much respect for the monumental amount of quality work that was involved in this, at massive personal cost. Wish him the best for the future and whatever else he does next.

Thanks for the 3 years of faultless updates. Not sure who else could fill those boots to be honest.
At UT Austin, there was a Physics class called "Pseudoscience" taught by Rory Coker(?). The class was on precisely the topic mentioned; it was a graded attendance-based class. (You lost a grade letter for every 1–2 classes you skipped.)

Rory was a master class mentalist — literally world famous. When other world class magicians were on the continent or passing through they'd come visit him. Invariably, he'd make them do a 10m opener for the class (usually mentalist, illusion, and close up). Did I mention the class average was a C?

Anyways, for the final, Rory did his trick: he chatted to us for a few minutes, drawing a picture; then we all had ~30s to draw a picture. Then, he chatted with some people — kinda at random — then picked one person to seal their picture in an envelope. At the end of the class was the reveal: he'd drawn this picture the girl drew. More importantly, just about everyone drew the same picture.

Then he made his point: depending on how he was feeling, there were about a half dozen pictures he could get an audience to draw.

Eye opening.
There are many interesting Web3 apps, like decentralized social media, decentralized web (IPFS), decentralized domain names, decentralized organization management, etc, but they have not seemed to mature enough to become mainstream. They all have various kinds of problems with usability especially for "ordinary people". But the core idea is there and it's good: Make the Internet truly decentralized and peer-to-peer again, and enable it by incentivization via crypto transactions. But it's going to take time.
My theory is that most people think about data misuse, perhaps unconsciously, from the viewpoint of your average good person. E.g. "if I got a hold of a stranger's bank information, then I'd be tempted to steal from them."

Instead they should think from the perspective of an evil person. E.g. "how can I proactively use whatever data that I can get to hurt someone."

For example, at a previous job I went to my managers and pointed out that every developer working on our system had access to our user's names and their involvement with racial justice programs our client was running. By guessing someone's ethnicity from their name, a bad actor could target minorities involved in racial justice. The response I got was not to fix the security issue; instead it was horror that I would ever conceive of such a scheme.
> there are plenty of examples of Western "investigators" arriving at politicized and often false conclusions with far worse consequences. The history of the CIA/FBI is chock-full of examples

BEA and the NTSB really really cannot be compared to CIA/FBI/DGSE. They are professionals with clear and apolitical goals. See the NTSB and BEA regularly criticising various government agencies, including in this case BEA being raided by the transport gendermes. Hell, even the MAK (equivalent air crash investigation agency for most of the former Soviet Union) dares criticise and publicly shit on and get into disputes with on government agencies not doing their job.

It's the Egyptians who are really the counterexample here in being absurdly terrible at their jobs. Wether it's just sheer incompetence, corruption, nepotism, or not wanting to embarrass the regime, we'll never know. Maybe it's a mix of the above. But especially in this crash, there is no reason for them to be so absurdly terrible at their jobs, there is nothing for them to be covering up (unlike the previous crash which was genuinely embarrassing for the country).
Builder Behind Vercel AI
Ghost artists? Aren't they called a studio artist which makes up the majority of paid works produced. Selling art and the copyright happens in every area. Most visual art produced for money doesn't have an artists name attached either.
Amiberry: Optimized Amiga emulator for multiple platforms
> Additionally, acid in foods may break down the phthalate diesters we measured into monoesters, which our testing didn't detect. This means actual phthalate levels could be higher than reported.

Just curious, is it possible for the acid to break them down completely? Like, poof, no more harmful plastic monoester, it's now just plastic-adjacent goop?
Rust. I mean, it's still possible to repair but it gets annoying.
Show HN: Booguide – a global leaderboard to track the most avid readers
Hey HN!,

I'm software engineering student who likes to read a lot.

I realized people in my country just read 2.5 books per year.

So I built booguide for two reasons:

1. To make the people compete for who read more books.

2. Encourage reading so that we can read more.

It's really simple but it can have huge impact. I would love if you give me feedback about it please.

Daivy
direct to cellular via satellite is reducing all deadzones to zero, barring some mountains at angle

just playing devil's advocate with the way I see it heading
This right here exemplifies my fundamental issue with GenAI.

Paint a picture without painting a picture!

Write a novel without writing a novel!

Compose a melody without composing a melody!

There was an absolutely insane comment on HN a few months ago where the poster said that they felt a sense of accomplishment after "producing" a song on Suno. I mean... how could that possibly be true? They didn't compose the melodic motif, figure out the chord progression, structure the song, or even write the lyrics. The world is getting a bit too kafkaesque for my liking.
you’re right, although cash basis would only fly under GAAP if you earn revenue at the time of cash receipt. In other words, anyone collecting money for services not immediately rendered (any subscription service) should be accrual
I think with how much more social gaming is nowadays, and the prevalence of team games, I'm not really interested in attending a LAN party alone. I want to play with my squad. And with the internet, that squad is pretty spread out so a get together at a LAN party is going to be difficult to coordinate.

Though on the opposite end, locals are still common for 1v1 fighting games. Shared screen games that doesn't require everyone to bring their own setup, just their controller, for a lower barrier of entry.
Eh, a novel has to hold coherence over many hours, while a song only runs for a few minutes.

It was possible to do a credible job composing algorithmic music in many genres before the current AI frenzy. Before long, you won't be able to tell the difference between human-composed and machine-composed music in any genre.

It will be quite a while before that happens with novels and screenplays. Wouldn't bet against it in the long run, though.
Hmmm...I'm now worried about my Aeropress, which I love. Perhaps it's time to switch to a french press.
One of the great and terrible things about the software industry is that there's no certifying body, no professional ethics code to sign and adhere to, no government regulation around how you can sell your services.

This is one of the best parts: many software people have gotten in through circuitous routes, have no formal training, and have done great things despite that.

On the other hand, because of that, we don't have any consensus and ability to shun or disposess companies that act unethically.

Quite frankly, I don't think any board of ethics would step in here. I don't see anything in the IEEE code of ethics that would be clear here. I don't think that professional licensing or better professional organizations are the way to stop this behavior.
Associative arrays are also "nicer" with 1 based indexing

t={}
t[#t+1] --> t[1] DONE!
t[#t==0 and 0 or #t+1]

Now, in order to fix this (or achieve the same behavior as #t+1), the length operator must return -1, which would be ridiculous. its empty, and we have a perfect representation of emptiness in math "0".

This is also true in awk as well, nobody ever whines about awk "arrays" being 0
He is not autistic, although perceived that way can be a competitive advantage in Silicon valley culture.
Not sure if it’s just in America but people love to tear others down to lift themselves up by comparison. Once it clicks and you understand what is going on it’s easy to just ignore them.
> had time to build all this

They didn't need a heads up to build this. It takes between half an hour and half a day.
OP has updated their post, but originally the HN intro included prefixes like "*Title*" and "*Content*."

Further exploration of this repo makes me think this is even sketchier. The wiki tells the user that they can trust the app because, "All our releases are signed using Sigstore for authenticity."[0] This text was added in a commit titled "refactor: remove Sigstore and update license to GPL 3.0."[1] And I don't see evidence that the app has ever used Sigstore at all.

Further, the LICENSE file includes the beginning of the GPLv3 and abruptly cuts it off 20 lines in with "[... rest of GPL 3.0 text ...]."[2]

A low-effort probably AI-generated Windows app that requires Admin privileges and makes false security claims: seems like malware.

[0] https://github.com/BytexGrid/NeatShift/blob/aac860504f093bb1...

[1] https://github.com/BytexGrid/NeatShift/commit/aac860504f093b...

[2] https://github.com/BytexGrid/NeatShift/blob/51a264cf5d5619ee...
I’m curious, do you live on a farm, or a suburb?
Big in (2010!) (181 points, 46 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1361245
>AI-generated music can be acceptable

But not at the 10 bucks or whatever they charge now
good luck with that ( ಠ ͜ʖ ರೃ)
That's just bad opsec. I would have thought rule number one of soliciting was to be cash only.

Ignoring of course that the amount of aggregated surveillance makes it impossible to escape monitoring. Credit cards, license plate scanners, phone GPS, airtags, doorbell cameras, "Eye in the Sky" spy planes, etc
Songshift works, sort of.
Their software is designed to enable hundreds of bookkeepers to do the accounting with some interesting automations, self hosting makes little sense. As an individual, if you want to do things yourself, you're better off using gnucash.
> The rest of your post is victim blaming.

Nonsense. It's simply stating the reality that HN users (the "you" in your comment) are not average males and average females—in fact, no one is. For the vast majority of audiences, gang violence should be excluded from tallies when trying to judge whether men or women are safer, and you're not doing so, which leads to an inaccurate judgement of relative risks for the people on this forum.

It's not victim blaming, it's pointing out that you're applying stats wrong.
Perhaps the quantity advantage has turned in favor of robots, but I'll be damned if you can name one AI-generated pop song that everyone knows by heart.

One year away, two max.
Thank you very much for writing this up. Good, thought-provoking ideas here.
Personal Knowledge Management.
I expected something different.

Let's say I'm researching how to get into IRL streaming right now.
So I'd make a topic, "IRL Streaming".
In there I'd like to put links to videos, links to documents/documentation/tutorials/guides/howtos.
I'd also like to take notes.

And in the end I would've learned this topic.
Maybe I'd create a sub-topic in there, to research "SRT and SLS vs RTMP".

People claim it's like a Obsidian clone. Looking at the Obisidan website it says it's a tool that helps you write a book.

This however calls itself PKM (short). I guess they're related, from looking at the screenshots, but not really what I'm looking for, I think.

I don't want to do what the top comment suggests, folders with files.
No I want a web app that I can access from anywhere and where I can dump links and notes to and about resources categorized by topic.
Reading the readme of siyuan-note it does seem to be able to do this.

Only 1 question, does it support multiple users? So I can host it for my town's community.
It sounds nice.
How do you evaluate the performance of your way against usual embedding?
can i configure it to run on dedicated? im on desktop, power consumption is not an issue.
There are geostationary satellites. they loiter.
Japan has detailed zoning restrictions, including the shadow a building can cast on a neighbor's lot. Maybe there are fewer lawsuits because the law is clear so it is easy to know if you are following it. https://ranjatai.wordpress.com/2022/02/11/sunlight-on-japane...
You can do all that online… however in-person networking is important.
Subframe rot. I live in Wisconsin. My 2000 Lexus won't live forever, no matter what I do.
At the end of the day, Spotify's north-star metric is average dollars of cost per minute of audio consumed; and to get that metric as low as possible. That's why they push podcasts so hard (and why they aren't in a separate app); Premium subscribers barely noticed when they still get ads in podcasts, beautiful double-dipping Spotify! It's why they want to get big into audiobooks; they're going to be a keystone in their justification for an even higher $20+/mo subscription.

Netflix was well on the same course; but instead made what was absolutely not an obvious pivot at the time, to just become a studio like those dozen other guys. In retrospect, it was a genius move because their access to fine-grained data on what their users watch became a differentiating factor to feed back into what the studio greenlights. But, it would have been the right move even if they didn't capitalize on that data, because there genuinely is no business to be built being a middle-man who has to pay for content. Spotify knows this, but they don't have the same escape hatch Netflix had; but they're tearing their app and users apart trying to find one.
Villages and small towns exist.
Hmm, good question...it definitely was years ago that I first saw it, but I'm not sure how recently the last time I remember seeing it is. Taking a look now, I think the entire site seems to be different compared to when I last looked at it; the layout is completely different, and I don't recall it having a dark mode before.
I think your point stands, but your example shows that anyone using those calculators daily should not be concerned. Those that need precision to the 6+ decimal places for complex equations should know not to fully trust consumer-grade calculators.

The issue with LLMs is that they can be so unpredictable in their behaviour. Take the following prompt that asks GPT-4 to validate the response to "calculate 2+3+5 and only display the result":

https://beta.gitsense.com/?chat=6d8af370-1ae6-4a36-961d-2902...

GPT-4o mini contradicts itself, which is not something one would expect for something we believe to be extremely simple. However, if you ask it to validate the response to "calculate 2+3+5," it will get it right.

https://beta.gitsense.com/?chat=43221de5-bff6-487a-8c0f-48ca...

By adding "and only display the result," GPT-4o mini was thrown for a loop; examples like this should give us pause.
There are still significant portions of the world where having electricity, internet, and running water all working at the same time is not as common as you would hope.

Expecting always on satellite connections in a lot of these places is asking for a lot.
Drawing is facinating.
I think it is beautiful idea to spent life.
>but most of the accountants probably didn't see this coming either.

I would expect this was the kind of thing an accountant should see coming though.
Indie dev on how their game was wrongly flagged as a virus, and blocked on Steam
The device/train could be bricked with or without copyright.
Personally, Discover Weekly went super downhill for me about a year ago. I used to get about one really good song a week, which I was really impressed by. But now, it's a deluge of songs with obviously fake instruments (the strings are a giveaway) and (presumably) AI-generated album covers. And the weird part is that sometimes a real, big name artist will be co-credited, but I highly doubt they had anything to do with it. (I've specifically noticed this with Audiomachine in particular, for some reason.)

I don't know if this phenomenon is related to the main article, but I've been wanting to rant about it for a while :-P
> The challenge is how do you revoke a certificate which was used to issue millions of ID cards/passports once it leaks? Does everybody suddenly not have a "valid" ID proof?

Revocations always come with a revocation date. Only passports issued after that date would be invalidated. The issuance dates could be proofed with cryptographic timestamps.

There is a trade-off between false positives and false negatives when choosing the revocation date of the issuer certificate. With OCSP, you could also revoke all the individual IDs that are not known-good (known to have been issued legitimately).

Of course, a world-wide interoperable passport scheme is unlikely to be designed with such an elaborate verification system, and maintaining registries of all legitimate IDs comes with its own risks.

In case of a massive breach, it’s more likely that everyone will have to get a new passport and re-prove their identity for that using separate means.
Do you need a passport, or do you need some form of government ID?

Presumably the 15% of UK residents who have no passport are still able to identify themselves somehow...
Bad investors and a dysfunctional board can destroy a company. When late-stage investors push to fire the CEO, they often do so to install a puppet CEO who will give them greater control over the board. This allows them to prioritize financial decisions that serve their own interests, often at the expense of other shareholders, such as early employees, whom they disregard.